business subsidies on firm productivity performance and on the relationship between firms’ lagged labor productivity and market … firms’ productivity performance. It seems that particularly employment and investment subsidies tend to be allocated to the … relatively less efficient companies. We further observe that a decline in the firm’s lagged labor productivity levels are clearly …

We analyse the development of labour productivity and hours worked by the working-aged population in the EU25 countries …-market variables. First, we describe the trends in productivity and hours worked especially in the EU15 countries relative to the … of the 1960-2004 period to explain the developments. Taxes and gross replacement rates do not correlate with productivity …

000 employees. In terms of firm size classes, the variances in profitability and productivity were large in software firms …. There are signs that middle-sized software firms (30-70 employees) suffer from lower than average productivity and … profitability, and their productivity growth rate has also been lower than in other size classes. On the whole, the labour …